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494. Vision given to Raymond Aguilera on 26 June 1994 at 2:41 PM.

A vision of a wooden match tied or taped to the heel of someone's shoe.

My note : Early news reports identified the shoes as a Nike brand

Shoe Bomber Suspect's Motives a Mystery

Reuters News Service

Posted Dec. 26, 2001 (London) -- A man suspected of trying to blow up a transatlantic airliner with explosives hidden in his shoes was a British convert to Islam who fell in with militants, the head of a London mosque said Wednesday.

The suspect, who was carrying a British passport in the name of Richard Reid when he boarded a Miami-bound flight in Paris on Saturday, worshipped at the Brixton mosque in south London, its chairman Abdul Haqq Baker told BBC radio.

Baker said Reid, who was known to him as Abdel Rahim and attended the mosque after converting to Islam, was lured by militants in London's Muslim community.

"He came from prison to us having embraced Islam in prison," Baker said. "He was a very amiable, cooperative individual in the early part... Toward the end of his period with us, we noticed a change."

Reid appeared in court Monday in Boston, where the flight was diverted, after he allegedly tried to ignite explosives in his shoes on the American Airlines Boeing 767.

Baker said it was possible Reid knew Zacarias Moussaoui, a Frenchman of Moroccan descent who also spent time in Brixton. Moussaoui faces conspiracy charges in the United States in connection with the Sept. 11 suicide hijacking attacks on New York and Washington.

The Times newspaper said Reid was born in 1973 in Bromley, southeast London, to an English mother and a Jamaican father.

Reid was forcibly subdued by flight attendants and fellow-passengers when he lit a match and appeared to be trying to set his shoes on fire. He appeared in court Monday and was ordered to reappear Friday.

The FBI believes the shoe bombs Reid wore were sophisticated enough to suggest he had an accomplice, The Boston Globe reported Tuesday.

Baker also said there were others behind Reid.

"I definitely believe there are individuals behind him and that he was a test and they were watching to see if he would succeed," he said. "The gullibility of him is evident in the way he tried to ignite the bomb in his shoe and failed to do that.

"I would say he was very, very impressionable," he said.

Men detained in Afghanistan have said they recognize Reid, U.S. officials said Wednesday. 

U.S. interrogators showed Reid's picture to several detainees who said they saw him at terrorist training camps inside Afghanistan. But U.S. officials said that the Bush administration so far does not have any independent confirmation of Reid being tied to al Qaeda or the Taliban and note it is possible the detainees lied to investigators.

Doubts remain over Reid's true identity. Britain's Scotland Yard said Reid was believed to be British but French officials have been quoted saying he is a Sri Lankan Muslim named Tariq Raja using a false British passport.